Gravitational Waves from Supersymmetry Breaking

Nathaniel J. Craig

Published 2009-02-11Version 1

In theories of supersymmetry breaking, it is often the case that there is more than one metastable vacuum. First-order phase transitions among such metastable vacua may generate a stochastic background of gravitational waves, the observation of which would provide a direct window into the supersymmetry-breaking sector.